Holograph, signed

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Manuscript addressed from "Mount Palatine Putnam Co Illinois". Manuscript addressed to "William Lloyd Garrison Boston Mass"

B. C. Lundy (the son of Benjamin Lundy) writes his deceased father's former colleague, William Lloyd Garrison, to clarify that, contrary to popular belief, the work "The Life & Opinions of Benjamin Lundy" was not issued under the supervision of the Lundy children, that they had no control whatsoever over the content of the work, and that they were not even consulted during its composition or production. Lundy states that a "half-sister" of his father's undertook this endeavor "without the least authority". Lundy asserts that this was done so that they could not place the task of their father's biography in Garrison's hands as he had desired, both owing to Garrison's relationship with Benjamin Lundy, as well as their knowledge of an understanding between Lundy and Garrison that the survivor of the two would compose the other's biography. Lundy states that he had "resolved to some day right the wrong" committed, and proposes to Garrison that he should write a proper biography of Benjamin Lundy

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